Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #9, 1 by dryad57

dryad57 wrote:
Hi Neal - the lobelia is definitely a shade lover. The times I have trouble with it is when I forget to keep it watered - it's very picky about that - but it's a constant bloomer and that color blue in the shade is really something. If you keep it in the shade and watered properly it doesn't really fizzle in The Hots. I had a pot on a ladder last year (with a little fountain setup, I'll see if I can find a pic to post) and it was too far up the ladder, got too much sun. This year it will be lower on the ladder and the thunbergia will be a bit higher :)

It is surprising what 90 miles north will do to the weather, isn't it?? I noticed that when we moved down from Chicago to Indy - going from Zone 5a to 5b was more of a change than I realized it would be!